The hapless digital duo of Janky and Guggimon,”synthetic celebrities” and virtual artists that already are social-media stars with an animated movie on the way, will be a key part of a big NFT-based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Superplastic, the designer toy brand launched by Kidrobot founder Paul Budnitz, has raised a ...

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Amazon is investing in character design studio Superplastic. Amazon Studios will develop a show based on the Janky and Guggimon characters owned by Superplastic. Our government trade tracker caught ...

Janky and Guggimon are BFFs, though Guggimon likes to torture Janky. He’ll drive an ax into Janky’s head or slap him around or light his face on fire. Janky is a goof who gets into his own messes. In ...

A pair of virtual celebrities — the “lazy and spectacularly incompetent” Janky and Guggimon — could be starring in Amazon’s next Prime Video original series. Amazon announced that it is leading a $20 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1967’s The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s fresh out of college Benjamin Braddock is told the future is in plastics. In 2023, Amazon ...

A new show starring two synthetic celebrities from character design studio Superplastic is in the early stages of development at Amazon Studios As part of a new first look deal with Amazon Studios, ...

Amazon today announced a first-look deal with Superplastic, a Vermont-based character design studio that creates synthetic celebrities. The deal includes a $20 million capital investment by The Alexa ...

In 1967’s The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s fresh out of college Benjamin Braddock is told the future is in plastics. In 2023, Amazon is taking some of that advice to heart and betting some of its future ...